Born in 1978, YEON Sang-ho is an animation direction who recently moved on to live action films. After graduating from Sangmyung University in painting, he made his debut in 1997 with short movie <Megalomania of D>, made in stop motion animation. In 2003, he moved to traditional animation technique with his third short <The Hell>, which won Asian Ghost Award at the Short Shorts Film Festival Asia. After he set up his own animation company Studio Dada Show in 2004,... expand

Born in 1978, YEON Sang-ho is an animation direction who recently moved on to live action films. After graduating from Sangmyung University in painting, he made his debut in 1997 with short movie <Megalomania of D>, made in stop motion animation. In 2003, he moved to traditional animation technique with his third short <The Hell>, which won Asian Ghost Award at the Short Shorts Film Festival Asia. After he set up his own animation company Studio Dada Show in 2004, his following short <ove is Protein> was screened in Competition section at the Curtocircuit Int'l Short Film Festival of Santiago de Compostela and invited to the Mauvais Genre International Film Festival in Tours, France. His debut feature <The King of Pigs> won NETPAC Award, CGV Movie Collage Award, Best Director Award from the Director's Guild of Korea at the Busan Int’l Film Festival in 2011 and was later screened at the Cannes Film Festival. His next feature <The Fake>, which dealt with cultish religion in Korea, was even more successful, garnering enormous acclaim around the globe and plenty of festival invitations, starting with a spot in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Vanguard Section. Right after the release of his zombie apocalypse animation <Seoul Station> in 2016, he made his live action debut with <TRAIN TO BUSAN>, which indirectly follows up on the events of <Seoul Station>. The film would benefit from positive word of mouth from its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival to rack up 11 million admissions in Korea and become one of the most successful Korean movies in foreign territories, prompting Hollywood to set up a remake. Following this success, YEON came back in 2018 with superhero blockbuster <Psychokinesis>, another live action film that challenges film genre conventions. close

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The Korean box office ended on a bang last year when December delivered by far the best results for Korean and overall sales for the month since records began. Some of that momentum carried through into the early weeks of 2018, but the first quarter of the year has been one of highs and lows, as a strong January was followed by a disappointing Lunar New Year holiday season in February, while March...

Weekend sales took a 15% dip as a major new release fell short of expectations, bringing admissions down to 1.96 million admissions. Despite a slow start for a local tentpole, the Korean market share remained healthy at 57%, though there was little in the way of foreign competition. Local superhero film Psychokinesis, YEON Sang-ho’s follow-up to his global smash Train to Busan (2016), faded quickl...

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